12/01/1999 PLANNING BOARD Minutes

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r AIM s i Pit! ;y]eift 4) Nitrate Loading/Fertilizer-Pesticide Use issue: Willowbend has had a meeting with the trustees of Cotuit Bay Condo (D. Balzarini and T. Fudala were present at this meeting). Preliminary engineering work has been done; Willowbend feels that it will not be a problem to tie Cotuit Bay Condos into their wastewater treatment facility. DEP also feels there are no problems with that. ' Tonight,Mr. McElhinney wanted to talk about another open space issue. 1\4s. Peggy Fantasi will speak to the board about wetland delineation that has occurred. Ms. Fantasi ' with an RDA from the Conservation Commission(CC)which will show clearly the areas of overlap of Willowbend's plan on jurisdictional areas of the CC. Also,a representative from VHB will speak on the wildlife study assessment that was conducted several weeks ago. Mr. McElhinney presented to the board, documents showing work that has been completed on nitrate loading calculations since the last board meeting. Mr. McElhinney also submitted to the board, a written summary of the presentation completed by Mitch Mulholland with reference to the status of the archaeological survey. Question from.Mr. Malone: when was Willowbend's last communication with the tribal council. Response from Mr. McElhinney: this week to set up another meeting for negotiations. Question from Ms. Kane: what is the current status with the Cape Cod Commission(CCC)review. Response from Mr. McElhinney: there is a jurisdictional hearing scheduled for 1 218199 as a public hearing. At this point,Mr. bandy Hart, Transportation Project Manager, VHB: presentation is in response to the Planning Board's request for a supplemental f analysis that is Willowbend specific. First,membership consisting of social, charter, and recreational, Also, looked at how people within Willowbend are actually members of •Y Willowbend. The study included operational conditions in the summer season. Finally, they looked at traffic volumes on a typical summer day(August 1999). Based on their 4 evaluation,Mr. Hart has determined trip generation, associated with the golf course component, is substantially less than that identified by 1TE by about 1/4. The residential component is even less,just under the golf course generation rate identified by ITE. These results are identical to traffic study completed early in November 1999. The concern about Orchard Rd was also an issue. VHB went to Orchard Rd.,using a seasonal adjustment,the increase was about 30%from the November evaluation. After the adjustment was made, VHB did some operational analysis(unsignalized condition): left are difficult,but will exist anyway because of the heavy traffic on Rte. 28. Mr. Dorgan 1 expressed surprise that Willowbend study show zero(0) impact. Mr. Hart responded that ` VHB used some judgment calls. VHB still feels there is no substantial impact. Mr. McElhinney stated that Willowbend has an obligation,under the Special Permit,to pay 50%of the redesign for Sampsons Mill Rd. Mr. Fudala stated that that condition was extended to 20021 but questionable as to whether or not it will be completed because of town opposition. Mr. Hart wanted to the board to know that any estimate is conservative. Question from Mr. Fudala to Mr. Hart: in the text of the memo VHB calculated a Willowbend specific residential trip generation,but in the actual tables 1TE residential numbers are used. Mr. Hart responded the numbers are similar; he has backup data. Mr. ' r Fudala responded that peaks are different even though data is the same. Mr. Hart replied - that VHB backed into the numbers. The question was raised as to how other memberships are factored in. Mr. Hart's response was they are built in. There are 426 t 2 t i